"The works in this exhibition offer not only a record of an important period in Blaine's artistic evolution, but also a microcosmic view of what was transpiring in American painting. The years it covers cannot be defined simply by the emergence of Abstract Expressionism as history tells it. It was a time of turbulence and confusion where what counted was the individual coming to terms with painting in his or her own way."--Martica Sawin, p. 7.